Washington State University News and Information Services Photographs, 1982-2002

This collection consists of 19 boxes of Washington State University images taken by staff members in WSU’s News and Information Services. The department was responsible for providing WSU stories for the media and for in-house publications such as WSU Week, Hilltopics, and Universe. Many of the photographs were also used in student publications such as the Chinook or the Evergreen.

There are several different formats in this collection, which includes three boxes of contact sheets, seven boxes of print photographs that are either loose or taped onto paper, eight boxes of slides, and one box of positive transparencies.

The various images, many of which are identified and described via hand-labeling by those who originally created or worked with them, are broken into six loose subject categories: athletics, campus, departments, people, students, and the three WSU branch campuses. Campus consists of buildings, classrooms, Greek life, events, laboratories, and sometimes individuals. Departments consist of various photos of students and/or faculty from specific university departments, sometimes working with department equipment or materials. The departments include fine arts, performing arts, language, engineering, a variety of sciences, and more. The images date from 1982 to 2002.